tenant Phillips, receive, both afloat and ashore, double the pay which is given to Portuguese officers in either case.
That this double pay is forty mil reis[1] per month on land, and eighty mil reis[2] at sea; and they have, in addition, when on board of frigates of war, four thousand eight hundred reis,[3] or, on board of ships of the line, six thousand four hundred reis[4] per day for their table, to which they ought to admit the Commissioned Officers and the Chaplains of their crews, they receiving, in addition, for their said table, as many rations from the hold as there are persons of the aforesaid rank who eat at it.
That it is not customary in Portugal to fix the amount of pay in case of retirement; that it is not usual for deserving officers to retire so long as they are able to serve; and that when it so happens, from incapacity of those officers, or other motive which may not be displeasing to the Court, His Majesty orders them to be rewarded, granting them not only half-pay, but full pay, and other favours, in proportion to the post, worth, capacity and behaviour of each.
God preserve you. Palace of our lady of Ajuda, on the 15th of October 1774.
To Senhor Luiz Pinto de Souza.
